They are made in a variety of materials, ranging from traditional cotton to cotton-polyester blends.

[3] The pants and sleeves of the dobok are wider and longer than the traditional Japanese keikogi.

Traditional taekwondo practitioners may wear dobok that are identical or very similar to keikogi, with a cross-over jacket front, while International Taekwon-Do Federation-style taekwondo practitioners typically wear a newer design with a vertically closing jacket front.

Other colours are typically yellow, orange, green, blue, purple, red, brown, and then black.

Practitioners of Korean sword arts like keomdo usually wear wider pants, called chima baji (치마바지; lit.